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Detroit is an example of what happens with open borders free trade globalization policies over the last several decades. You have towns in the rust belt that used to be defined by large middle classes, based upon manufacturing, and they are now devastated, with the greatest number of disability applications being found there. This is done in desperation in order to try to get at least some income into households. Open borders free trade globalization, the scheme to enrich greater the elites has devastated towns all across this nation as the tax base was eroded, taken away creating towns that look like the great depression was here again.

So, instead of blaming democrats, if you were seriously objective you would blame the path that Reagan put us on, reversing what created vibrant towns and cities post ww2. And then blame the democrats who moved toward the insanity of neoliberalism brought back by the GOP, and embraced it, so they could feed at the banking cabal and big corporation pig troughs for campaign donations to further the political ambitions of these treasonous dems and repubs.

What really gets my goat, is that the fact of the matter is, the way FDR structured our economy was not only a success but a monumental success for average americans, which is the majority in this nation, and that cannot be honestly refuted. And what Reagan brought back has been the greatest economic failure when it comes to average americans ever seen, unless you go back to the gilded age. Now you guys can live in denial, for ideological reasons, but the evidence for what I just said is too high and too prolific to ignore.

I never saw people having to live under bridges, under the FDR model, but ever since Reagan, we have filled up the underside of bridges with people who cannot earn a living in this hollowed out economy, done by the elites, and the men who represent their interests in DC and will not represent the interests of the American people. When you see a crowd for trump or sanders, you are seeing the people who finally caught on to the treason. That you and others like commodore have yet to catch on, just illustrates the hold that ideology has on some people. You guys would ride this sinking ship to the bottom, and refuse to plug up the hole, and drown, simply because the plug was BLUE and union made. And some MNC in china didn't make it using communist labor for cents on the dollar.

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Just like the six million dollar man - but I have a feeling liberalism will always be with us no matter how many times we repeat the cycles of failure.

We can rebuild and ... the fantasies of creating a perfect "utopia" run by a few arrogant creeps, will return again. Cause destruction again - rinse repeat rinse repeat rinse rep...................

Funny, we think we're so intelligent - we have all this cool "technology," we can go to the moon, to mars, we're "modern" and "advanced" yadda yadda yadda

But we continue causing misery and destroying ourselves over and over with the same idiotic fantasies.

Weird

It isn't liberalism at all. You have to zoom out and get the big view of what is driving this. LIberalism, or progressivism has the best track record in modern history, post ww2 and it was only when that economic model was dismantled that the trouble began. Open borders free trade globalization will continue to destroy towns and cities, as the revenues needed from our once healthy middle class have been hollowed out, by the loss of industry. Industry is what supported these towns and cities. Only a damned idiot would think you could give that away to communists and not devastate those towns and cities. If you cannot see the simple truth here, I think its time to get the ideological mote out of the eyes. This is so obvious as to be laughable when people try to blame it on liberalism. It is conservative neoliberalism that has caused this, and the right side just refuse to admit the truth of it. And these guys still worship reagan, who brought this failed neoliberalism back from the gilded age. Hell, they will not even admit to the monumental failure of this ideology. Only the trump supporters seem to get it, finally. You will never make america great again unless you stop this insanity of only maxing out elite profits and wealth.

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It isn't liberalism at all. You have to zoom out and get the big view of what is driving this. LIberalism, or progressivism has the best track record in modern history, post ww2 and it was only when that economic model was dismantled that the trouble began. Open borders free trade globalization will continue to destroy towns and cities, as the revenues needed from our once healthy middle class have been hollowed out, by the loss of industry. Industry is what supported these towns and cities. Only a damned idiot would think you could give that away to communists and not devastate those towns and cities. If you cannot see the simple truth here, I think its time to get the ideological mote out of the eyes. This is so obvious as to be laughable when people try to blame it on liberalism. It is conservative neoliberalism that has caused this, and the right side just refuse to admit the truth of it. And these guys still worship reagan, who brought this failed neoliberalism back from the gilded age. Hell, they will not even admit to the monumental failure of this ideology. Only the trump supporters seem to get it, finally. You will never make america great again unless you stop this insanity of only maxing out elite profits and wealth.

I know you like to blame all that is wrong with America on 'neo-liberalism' and reagan and their economic policies.

While you may be correct about some of their effects, I think you're so focussed on 'conservative neoliberalism' that you tend to ignore the effects of liberal ideas and applications as a whole. Might it be there's a mote in your own eye distracting you from a few things ?

Economic policy ideas account for a lot, .. but aren't everything.

Liberal fantasies of every kind are now being forced onto us and the effects are just beginning. Free speech, freedom of the press, the second amendment, the freedom to practice your religion, freedom in general is becoming something we like to talk about and pretend we still have.

Trump is a business man. They are even less trustworthy than todays "politicians." He is not the solution to Americas problems.

Returning to our Constitution and the words of our founding fathers is.

Unity is.

Division and internal warring will destroy us. Where we are today, I'm unsure if we can recover from.. without a BIG event that forces us to band together and work together again.

...divided we fall...

We did it to ourselves.

But "technology" makes it all Ok I guess ?

No, just more fantasy.

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose - “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing.”

Now we just have more ways to commit evils against one another and there are more of us to do it. We've turned our backs on God and the principles that made us great.

What do we expect ?

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....we have television and smart phones and computers and satellites and robots, and we've sent men to the moon, and we can cure diseases, transplant organs, and even change a persons sex well, not really but we can at least make a man look like a woman and vice versa. So who'se to say that the early Fathers and Doctors of the Church all those many years ago weren't just wrong about a lot of things?

Science has shown us the wonders of technology and pretty soon we'll have self-driving cars and robots with artificial intelligence that will be doing most of the work for us. We'll all be free to pursue lives of leisure. The world will be a wonderful place then. Or maybe not.

Chances are that in the future the atheists will still be criticizing people who believe in God. And the LGBT crowd will probably still be demanding that every Christian religion change its beliefs to accommodate their belief that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are perfectly normal. And there may still be radical Islamic extremists who want to kill anyone who doesn't believe as they do, and nuts like Kim Jong-un who want everyone to bow to them.

...

Yet even with all these pesky problems today, that don't look to be going away anytime soon, far too many amongst us think that it really is possible to create heaven on earth. If we can just put the right political system in place and put the right people in charge and make the more and better laws and regulate everything and figure out how to make the economy work right and use technology correctly and make sure everyone has health coverage we can have Utopia here on Earth!

[ Sorry it won't work. Why ? Because.. ]

... there will never be Utopia on Earth, because as smart as we may be there will always be too many individuals in the world who think nothing of hurting others or manipulating others, or amassing wealth or seeking to attain power in a misguided effort to make things better for themselves or have a more comfortable life here on earth.

As smart as we are we may never get along, even though Jesus Christ told us how to over 2,000 years ago. And then He died for us so that those who get it will get their reward when they die, in heaven, which is not of this world.

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Just out of curiosity, how is that KILL people working out in Chicago there leftists! That is YOUR people, what you got to say about it! Is there any wonder Trump won, I mean really. When you have to defend how the people are killing each other, then you have to defend that which can NOT be defended.

You leftists; as of this post.....are illogical, irrelevant, and immaterial! Congrats, really! You managed to do all of our work for us, and it will carry into 2018!. Cya, wouldn't want to be ya!

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ALEC: Mostly Democratic-run States Are A Total Disaster, Have The Worst Economies

The American Legislative Exchange Council released their “Rich States, Poor States” report last week and shocker—mostly Democratic-run states are a disaster concerning economic performance and competitiveness. ALEC included the top and bottom ten states in the press release announcing the 10th edition of the report. NTK Network broke down who controls what in the respective state legislatures of these low performing states as well.

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It isn't liberalism at all. You have to zoom out and get the big view of what is driving this. LIberalism, or progressivism has the best track record in modern history, post ww2 and it was only when that economic model was dismantled that the trouble began. Open borders free trade globalization will continue to destroy towns and cities, as the revenues needed from our once healthy middle class have been hollowed out, by the loss of industry. Industry is what supported these towns and cities. Only a damned idiot would think you could give that away to communists and not devastate those towns and cities. If you cannot see the simple truth here, I think its time to get the ideological mote out of the eyes. This is so obvious as to be laughable when people try to blame it on liberalism. It is conservative neoliberalism that has caused this, and the right side just refuse to admit the truth of it. And these guys still worship reagan, who brought this failed neoliberalism back from the gilded age. Hell, they will not even admit to the monumental failure of this ideology. Only the trump supporters seem to get it, finally. You will never make america great again unless you stop this insanity of only maxing out elite profits and wealth.

The irony is that you are utterly incapable of 'zooming out', you always focus on only the transitional impact of what was brilliantly once dubbed as the "creative destruction" aspect of free market capitalism, which is what is responsible for the unparalleled advancement of mankind around the globe in the last 150 years. Protectionism is the most stupid and dangerous thing that any society can do (that along with criminally negligent reaction by the Federal Reserve was what turned a relatively routine downturn into the Great Depression).

I can't find it now, but there was a wonderful article that looked at people who thought EXACTLY like Blue Doggy at the down of the industrial age, making the same idiotic predictions about the future (massive unemployment that would see future generations relegated to poverty and being far less well off than their parents). While they were somewhat correct about the impact of the Industrial Revolution on their own generation (largely because of the old adage "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"), they were absolute, 100 percent, laughably, dangerously (to the extent such stupidity gets reflected in public policy) 180 degrees wrong on the impact it would have on future generations.

No, this time is not "different", and those arguing that it is are just ignorant of basic economics.

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This time, the Democrats are running the entire State into the ground over the veto of the Republican governor:Illinois' unpaid bill backlog hits a record $16 billion

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois’ pile of unpaid bills topped $16 billion for the first time as the state deals with the fallout of an unprecedented two straight fiscal years without complete budgets, the state comptroller’s office reported on Tuesday.

The bill backlog is growing despite the enactment of a fiscal 2018 spending plan and income tax increase in July that ended a budget impasse between Illinois’ Republican governor and Democrats who control the legislature.

“What is going to take this backlog down is the borrowing,” said Abdon Pallasch, spokesman for Democratic state Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

A provision in the budget enacted by lawmakers over the vetoes of Governor Bruce Rauner authorized the sale of up to $6 billion of general obligation bonds to pay bills from vendors and service providers that are accruing late payment penalties of as much as 12 percent.